Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu met with members of the United Torah Judaism Party including Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman and Member of Knesset Moshe Gafni. The three discussed the party's support of the state budget and the possibility of early elections.
This is the lastof a series of meetings PM Netanyahu has held with the leaders of the coalition parties on whether to hold elections or whether to try to pass the budget. The annual budget vote is one fo the most important in the Knesset.
10/9/2012
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09.10.2012

JERUSALEM — Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor plans to march 50 donkeys through the streets of the Holy City to coincide with a gay pride parade on Thursday, his office said."This expresses what we think -- that this is a beastly act," Rabbi Yitzhak Pindrus, who represents the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party on the city council, told the Ynet news website.His spokesman Menahem Zaide declined to link the donkey march to the parade, saying only: "Donkeys also have rights to be recognised as couples."We are in favour of donkey rights," he told AFP.However, Zaide said they ...

The agreement for an all-around moratorium on the legal actions that could change the status quo of conversions in Israel seems to be accepted only by liberal Jewish groups, while the haredi Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, which supported Israel Beiteinu MK David Rotem’s conversion bill in its recent Knesset Law Committee vote, were not part of such a deal.Rotem, too, said that he was not a party to any such understanding.The Prime Minister’s Office announced late on Thursday night that the Reform and Masorti (Conservative) movements in Israel had agreed to a nearly ...